George Spartels

George Spartels

Actor

Australia

George Bernard Spartels (born 25 April 1951) is an Australian actor of Greek descent on his father's ancestry, and Irish/English on his mother's. He remains best known for his role on the television soap opera Neighbours, playing family patriarch Benito Alessi, along with Prisoner and Bellbird star and soap veteran Elspeth Ballantyne as his wife Cathy Alessi, two son's Felice Arena And Dan Falzon, the Alessi family of Italian descent where added to the series in mid=1992, as a new family, joining already cast cousins the Blakeney sisters. Spartels, was also a children's television presenter, having had a long tenure on the ABC's Play School, over 14 years between 1985 and 1999. Other role's include Prisoner in 1979, Punishment in 1981, and Blackfinger in the movie Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome in 1985, alongside Mel Gibson and Tina Turner.
George Bernard Spartels (born 25 April 1951) is an Australian actor of Greek descent on his father's ancestry, and Irish/English on his mother's. He remains best known for his role on the television soap opera Neighbours, playing family patriarch Benito Alessi, along with Prisoner and Bellbird star and soap veteran Elspeth Ballantyne as his wife Cathy Alessi, two son's Felice Arena And Dan Falzon, the Alessi family of Italian descent where added to the series in mid=1992, as a new family, joining already cast cousins the Blakeney sisters. Spartels, was also a children's television presenter, having had a long tenure on the ABC's Play School, over 14 years between 1985 and 1999. Other role's include Prisoner in 1979, Punishment in 1981, and Blackfinger in the movie Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome in 1985, alongside Mel Gibson and Tina Turner.

George Spartels Filmography